Assessment of the school readiness section of the early detection inventory: Preschool prediction across situational factors

The Roles of Cognitive Processing and Language Development in Emergent Literacy

“…The remaining 7 8 % may be attributed to factors that were not measured in this study, including auditory perception (Abrahamson et al, 1979;Belka & Williams, 1979;Stanovich, Cunningham, & Cramer, 1984), visualperceptual and perceptual-motor (Lindgren, 1978;Satz, Taylor, Friel, & Fletcher, 1978), behavioral-emotional factors (Birrell, Phillips, & Scott, 1985;Kohn & Rosman, 1974), and demographic variables (Butler, Marsh, Sheppard, & Sheppard, 1982;Satz et al, 1975).…”

“…Indeed, there is growing evidence (Lazar & Darlington, 1982) that remediation at this time does reduce the incidence of later school failure. Thus, in an effort to identify the early warning signs of subsequent school failure, researchers have studied the predictive validity of various preschool measures of auditory perception (Abrahamson & Bell, 1979), cognitive abilities (Stevenson & Newman, 1986), perceptual-motor skills (Lindgren, 1978), affect (Kohn & Rosman, 1974), and demographic variables (Satz, Friel, & Goebel, 1975). However, to date, there is little agreement as to the relative effectiveness of any of these measures in predicting subsequent academic performance (Tramontana, Hooper, & Selzer, 1988).…”